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	Thrill Jockey Records - Artists
		Tortoise are one of the only bands of their size and status who have always produced their own records, and it largely because of this that they are able to achieve and maintain such a distinct and precise sound.
		The band's extensive knowledge of the studio's equipment allows them to use it for composing, editing, and coloring their compositions.
		The band are very at home in this environment, and without a restrictive deadline (normally present with hired producers/studios), the band can explore a multitude of approaches.
	www.thrilljockey.com /artists/?id=10048 (844 words)

	Tortoise (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tortoise, an instrumental rock band, formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1990.
		Tortoise's almost entirely instrumental music defies easy categorization, and the group gained significant attention from their early career.
		Tortoise was among the first American indie rock bands to incorporate styles closer to Krautrock, dub, minimalism, electronica and various jazz styles, rather than the standard rock and roll and punk that had dominated indie rock for years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tortoise_(band) (519 words)

	Tortoise
		The giant tortoises of the Galapagos Islands helped Charles Darwin formulate his theory of evolution, since the isolated populations on the different islands, although descended from a common ancestor, had diverged to different forms.
		All land tortoises are herbivorous in the wild.
		Turtles and tortoises are the only surviving branch of the even more ancient clade Anapsida, which includes groups such as the procolophonoids, millerettids and pareiasaurs.
	www.aaaah.org /wiki/en/to/Tortoise.htm (239 words)

	Encyclopedia: Tortoise (band)
		Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all.
		Rhythm section refers to the musicians whose primary jobs in a jazz or popular music band or ensemble is to establish the rhythm of a song or musical piece, often via repeated riffs or ostinati.
		In the Fishtank is a 1999 EP by Tortoise with The Ex as part of the In the Fishtank project.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tortoise-(band) (1954 words)

	tortoise - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about tortoise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Tortoises are related to the terrapins and turtles, and range in length from 10 cm/4 in to 150 cm/5 ft. The shell consists of a curved upper carapace and flattened lower plastron joined at the sides; it is generally more domed than that of turtles.
		The sex of a tortoise is difficult to determine, except when the female is on heat.
		A Tortoise desired to change its place of residence, so he asked an Eagle to carry him to his new home, promising her a rich reward for her trouble.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /tortoise (428 words)

	CityBeat: Tortoise Work (2001-05-24)
		McCombs is one of the busiest of Tortoise's members during his off-time, as he continues to serve as bassist for Eleventh Dream Day (a position he's held since joining the band in 1985), Brokeback and Pullman, in both recording and touring capacities.
		Tortoise began in 1990 when McCombs and drummer John Herndon joined forces to play together and to express their love for Jazz and Prog Rock over a hushed Alt Rock melancholy.
		The band's numerous singles and trio of full-length releases have all benefited from Tortoise's rather organic process in the studio, as the band members assemble every couple years with song fragments in hand that can be shaped and massaged by the entire band.
	www.citybeat.com /2001-05-24/music2.shtml (1321 words)

	Tortoise (band) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Tortoise, is a musical instrumental rock group formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1990.
		In 1998, Tortoise released TNT, their most jazz-inflected album.
		Tortoise (band), Members, Current personnel, Former members, Music, History, Discography, External links, American musical groups and Post-rock groups.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Tortoise_%28band%29 (508 words)

	Tortoise experiments with Sound
		McCombs explains that "The way any Tortoise song starts is that one person in the group will have an idea that might not even be really formed at all--a beat, a rhythm or a little piece of a melody that he wants to try and do something with.
		Tortoise is able to begin with a simple bass line, building shifting polyrhythmic tension on top of the framework until the audience is driven into a frenzy.
		This summer the band arrived in Denton, Texas, (one of the many stops on its North American tour) and was surprised to find that it was headlining a "Space Rock" festival, during which Tortoise had an impromptu jam with Spectrum/E.A.R mastermind Sonic Boom.
	www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V129/N18/01-tortoise.18d.html (1145 words)

	The Campus Chronicle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Tortoise is now firmly established as the archetypal band of its genre.
		At the same time, the band’s knack for writing songs that are easy to grab hold of and the members’ casual demeanor has extended their appeal to less sophisticated (or less pretentious, depending on your perspective) listeners.
		Tortoise’s faithful probably will be satisfied with the new release, while listeners who are new to the band will, no doubt, be surprised that such an animal even exists.
	www.thecampuschronicle.com /archive/vol_1/3_02/sound.html (478 words)

	Tortoise : It's All Around You - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Tortoise only release an album about once every three years, and their style is one of the most distinctive in rock music, so a record that fails to push them forward can hardly be termed a failure.
		Members of the band, as well as some fans, would argue that the Tortoise aesthetic isn't to continually push their music forward (as would their compatriots in post-rock) but to continue seeking a clearer expression of their methods (as would an experimental or jazz outfit).
		Hearing Tortoise play music derivative of Tortoise is an enjoyable experience, but to be faced with a record so familiar from a band once so fresh is clearly a disappointment.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,2842679,00.html (389 words)

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		While Tortoise borrow the elements of sound and composition from jazz, funk, and prog, they are much more in line with distinctly contemporary musical trends: the math-rock units that Chicago is perhaps more recognisable for (see: Albini-co); and the thinking-men of avant-electronic music (see: Aphex Twin, Authecre, Oval, Main).
		Tortoise are more definable as math-rock or electronic, in that they are contoured, precise, measured, faceless, and experimental.
		Tortoise have found their names ending up in history of rock books and, of recent, found acclaim in the kind of magazines that are well behind the cutting-edge.
	gravitygirl.shafted.com.au /old/tortoise.html (1282 words)

	village voice > music > Tortoise, It's All Around You by Jeff Chang
		Perhaps Tortoise are jazz in their Miles-Teo chop-shop artifice, and prog in that they've never heard anything they didn't like.
		Tortoise may be the only band that can match the everything-mashup steez, sonic skills, conceptual ambition, and breakbeat heat of the Roots.
		But by now Tortoise know how to bring the drama, and it builds into the towering climax of "Crest," an elegy of harpsichord, marimba, and strings that's the closest thing to an anthem—or a Levi's commercial—that Tortoise have yet constructed.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0416/chang.php (552 words)

	Cincinnati CityBeat : 05/05/2004 : Tortoise and the Flair
		When Tortoise's individual members are finally assembled for the purpose of concocting its signature proggy, ambient instrumental sonic tapestries, they arrive with a bounty of knowledge springing from their wildly diverse musical pursuits in those times when Tortoise isn't being Tortoise.
		Tortoise's necessity of having to chart out everyone's availability is like planning to have sex with your wife in three months.
		The beauty and strength of Tortoise's creative matrix is its ability to transcend its manufactured spontaneity to produce fresh and uncalculated sounds in spite of the calculation required to produce them.
	www.citybeat.com /2004-05-05/music2.shtml (1042 words)

	Tortoise: Standards (2001): Reviews
		Tortoise are unquestionably skilled artisans, electrocuting the framework for the typical rock song and reconstructing the fragments into a wonderfully surrealist space mission soundtrack.
		As always, the band is poised between capturing a momentary, malleable inspiration and shaping that moment into some timeless anthem, and as always, it chooses to dither and delay, settling for a sometimes pleasant, sometimes maddening, almost always stimulating exploration of atmospherics.
		After i watced tortoise live in belglium this year, which i rate as one of my best concerts ever, i bought the album and listened for it for one week, nam.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/tortoise/standards (801 words)

	Splendid E-zine reviews: Tortoise
		The band has accumulated so much non-musical baggage that it's difficult to sit down and listen to one of their records without sifting through a pile of non-essential peripheral information.
		The jazz leanings and fascination with electronic music remain, and are sometimes imprudently indulged, but in general the band seems to have a renewed awareness of the needs of the people on the other side of the speakers.
		In its final ninety seconds, however, it reveals a "standard Tortoise" conclusion, rife with xylophone and jazz riffs, grinding to a halt with a quartet of progression runs.
	www.splendidezine.com /reviews/feb-19-01/tortoise.html (760 words)

	Tortoise
		Tortoise's instrumental music, which represents one of the most important chapters in today's rock music, originates from a movement that took off from Kentucky and spawned bands such as Squirrel Bait, Slint, Bastro, Bitch Magnet.
		To me they were just like many other bands, they were trying to do what was popular at the time, aggressive emotional rock and roll, and they were not that good.
		Abbiamo parlato dell’album dei Tortoise "TNT" (1998) col bassista Doug McCombs.
	www.scaruffi.com /interv/tortoise.html (1651 words)

	Tortoise (band) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Led by John McEntire (drums and producer), Tortoise also consists of Doug McCombs (bass), John Herndon (drums, keyboard, vibes), Bundy K. Brown (guitar, wholeft in 1995), Dan Bitney (percussion), David Pajo (guitar,left in 1998), and Jeff Parker (guitar).
		Some have cited Tortoise as being one of the prime forces behind the development and popularity of the so-called " post-rock " movement.
		Others, however, have criticized Tortoise's music as beingderivative of progressive rock and claim that Tortoise will neverhave a long-standing influence on rock music.
	www.therfcc.org /tortoise-band--72435.html (236 words)

	Tortoise: Standards: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It seems remarkably appropriate that Tortoise, perhaps the most vital architects of the post-rock genre, would be responsible for its greatest advancement since its inception.
		Though Parker's presence was a welcome addition to the band on TNT, he seems to have really come into his own as a band member on Standards, and his versatile guitar stylings not only breathe new life into Tortoise's sound, they also provide the kind of melodic centerpiece that previous recordings have at times lacked.
		Whereas most of the tracks on TNT were written in the studio, and often fell victim to a high aimless noodling factor, the band composed most of Standards ahead of time, and as a result, "Blackjack," along with the other nine songs on the album, are beautifully structured, and develop flawlessly from beginning to end.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/t/tortoise/standards.shtml (854 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! - Tortoise races in new directions
		The Berklee-trained Parker joined the band eight years ago, after some of the Millions mania had subsided, and brought with him a jazz sensibility that ensured the band would move further from rock.
		For The Lithium Stiffs the band -- Parker, John McEntire, Douglas McCombs, John Herndon and Dan Bitney -- encouraged alt.country darling Kelly Hogan to provide that rarest of Tortoise phenomena: A vocal, albeit in the form of oohs and ahs.
		Tortoise, the band that perhaps unwittingly foisted "post-rock" on the world, remains happily left of centre.
	jam.canoe.ca /Music/Artists/T/Tortoise/2004/04/14/pf-751380.html (589 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Tortoise (band)
		Tortoise, is a musical group formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1990.
		Tortoise's almost entirely intrumental music defies easy categorization, and the group gained significant attention from their early career.
		In some ways, the buzz surrounding the the follow up to Millions led to a degree of music press anticipation, particularly in the United Kingdom, perhaps raising expectations unnecessarily high for what was, in reality, twelve relatively straightforward and 1970s-inflected jazz-rock instrumentals of variable quality.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Tortoise_%28band%29 (536 words)

	Tortoise: A Whole New Standard : Patrick Sisson : Music - Centerstage Chicago
		By 1994, when the self-titled first album was released, the band had already dropped a pair of 7-inches and had a chance to refine their sound.
		When Tortoise tours the U.S. this spring with former Anti-Pop Consortium member Beans as opener, it’ll be a great chance to see the band continue to hit its stride.
		According to Herndon, the band will continue to hone its compositional chops and stick with complex arrangements, but there are some tracks in the Tortoise oeuvre that have a little more “play” in them and can get stretched out on the road.
	centerstage.net /music/articles/tortoise.html (893 words)

	Tortoise
		But Tortoise is not your typical rock band and Herndon is no typical keeper of the backbeat: he also programs sequencers, plays electric piano and even taps the vibraphone.
		But Tortoise was founded before it found a name by Herndon and bassist McCombs, and if what their instrumental noodling led to was an atypical rock band, their story of malaise with rock was not atypical at all.
		Tortoise doesn't really fit in with the new music crew at the Victoriaville Festival, where they debut in Quebec this weekend, but that's the whole point of post-rock or musique actuelle or Victo itself.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/1997/051597/cover.html (999 words)

	Tortoise: Exceeding Standards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Within a year’s time, Tortoise was born and the band was completed with the addition of yet another multi-instrumentalist, in the form of Dan Bitney.
		From the band’s self-titled debut to the addition of guitarist Jeff Parker on TNT to the atmospheric landscapes of 2004’s It’s All Around You, a clear depiction of a band unparalleled in music can be found.
		Being that the band produces their own records and records it in their own studio, It’s All Around You was the product they were looking for, also helped by the fact that this was the first album in their ten-year plus career that didn’t include a line-up change.
	www.glidemagazine.com /articles159.html (1241 words)

	David Pajo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, even this classification is constraining, as he has worked with bands who fall under such genre headings as post-rock, math-rock, indie-rock, and even folk.
		Though his first band with a recording was the legendary Louisville hardcore band Solution Unknown, he got his start as a guitarist for the Louisville hardcore band Maurice and rose to fame with the influential Louisville math-rock band Slint.
		He has also released music as a solo artist using various monikers, as Aerial M, M, M Is The Thirteenth Letter, and most notably, Papa M.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Pajo (265 words)

	TORTOISE
		Tortoise are also scheduled to appear on August 1st at the Avant Festival Fuengirola in Spain along with Hood, Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, Lamb, U.N.K.L.E. and others.
		Tortoise will be on the bill for a three-day music fest in NYC at Irving Plaza, scheduled for September 5-7.
		Tortoise and others will also be on the bill for a similar event in London during an all-day fest on September 15th.
	brainwashed.com /tortoise (699 words)

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